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JWST discovers a surprising massive early galaxy that should be rotating – but it is not
Rotation seems to be one of those quintessential characteristics of galaxies. Whenever we see spiral galaxies, we can easily ...
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Why do stars change their spin as they near the end of their lives? Scientists explain
The interaction between the internal rotation and magnetic fields retards or speeds up the spin rate.
From birth to death, stars generally slow by 100 to 1,000 times their initial rotation rates; in other words, they "spin down ...
Did you know that, at a certain point on a moving wheel... there's no motion? Did you know that, at a certain point on a moving wheel... there's no motion? I mean, kinda... it's all relative, right?
Time for another Fermi problem. There was a recent story in Science News that talked about the effects of the Chilean quakes on the Earth's rotation. The basic idea is that some ginmourmous amounts of ...
Recently, femtosecond laser techniques have been developed that are capable of bringing gas molecules to extremely fast rotation in a very short time, while keeping their translational motion ...
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